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Let’s say there are prospects for a new Nigeria, but I don’t think we have a new Nigeria yet.

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Religion has really spawned some monsters. It always has, historically. Go all the way back to the Inquisition, you know, the Crusades, the Jehad and so on.
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And gradually they’re beginning to recognize the fact that there’s nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it’s sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.
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I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait to write. I don’t function that way. I go through a long period of gestation before I’m even ready to write.
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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
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I began writing early – very, very early… I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, ‘Now I’m a writer.’ I’ve always been a writer.
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Well, some people say I’m pessimistic because I recognize the eternal cycle of evil. All I say is, look at the history of mankind right up to this moment and what do you find?
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I cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power.
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Don’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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But when you’re deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it’s amazing.
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I am a very curious person; I’ll always ask: is this thing true, is it not true? And I use my own means to investigate and come to my conclusion.
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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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